Breck Eisner Gets Pulled On To Direct STRETCH ARMSTRONG!!

There hasn't been a lot of motion on the planned STRETCH ARMSTRONG flick since the project was dumped by Universal at the end of their Hasbro partnership and subsequently picked up by Relativity Media. Taylor Lautner became un-attached from the film, and that was about it.

But there's about to be some new life breathed into the stretchy hero, as The Hollywood Reporter reports that Breck Eisner is in talks to direct STRETCH ARMSTRONG.

Eisner doesn't exactly have the type of track record that'd get you excited about his involvement in STRETCH ARMSTRONG. The two feature films he has to his credit are SAHARA and the remake of George Romero's THE CRAZIES. Add that to the company that brought us BATTLESHIP and TRANSFORMERS, and confidence isn't what starts brewing.

However, a big part of what might actually make STRETCH ARMSTRONG will be the casting as well as the tone. If they can find the right frontman to be stretched out on-screen, and can find a good mix between comedy and action, there might be something to this idea yet. I'll have to see it to believe it though.

Not simply because they exist - more so because it is millions of dollars that could be far better used for a much worthier cause...
movies should be made to tell a story, not to try to cash in on obscure toys from 20 years ago. For crying out loud....this is what, 50 million dollars or more that could be put toward college scholarships, research, or heck, even other movies that people would actually pay to see.
I can't think of anyone who has ever gone "Gee, you know what would be really awesome? If they'd make a stretch armstrong movie. It'd be like the Fantastic 4 minus all personality and 3 of the guys don't show up."
Seriously. Who EVER asked for that? If you want to make a movie based on obscure toys from our childhoods, try Dino Riders. At least THAT idea might be a little bad-ass (albeit in an incredibly cheesy way).

I never read comics as a kid - was a Peanuts fanatic, though. Anyway, I did work pre-production phase on Amblin's "Plastic Man" in the early 90s. Tom Hanks was to star, and Catherine Hardwicke was the production designer, with Bryan Spicer directing. Extensive set design
sketches and location scouting for a few months...
Is "Stretch" similar?

It was one of the best made and scariest horror/thriller movies I've seen in years--other than the very end, which was pretty ridiculous. And say what you will about the Sahara script, but there wasn't anything wrong with the direction.

I wish someone would have the balls to do a real, human piece about young Hitler and what made him into what he became - I don't mean the typical portrayal as a frothing madman, but the scarier truth that he was an actual human being who did what all humans some place inside are capable of.
Der Untergang (The Downfall) was fantastic, though that only covered his last days in the bunker.
I think it's important that we understand the psychology of a person like that - history will repeat itself, after all.
But oh fuck, what do we get? Stretch Armstrong. Wonder if it'll get an oscar. Man, I bet Spielberg wishes he'd done that instead of Schindler's List. >.>

Certainly one of the best remakes in recent history. The movie was scary, disturbing, and entertaining.
Timothy Olyphant is one of the better, reliable actors today in Hollywood.
However, nobody wants a Stretch Armstrong movie.

From the studio that brought you "Simon Rising" and the director of "The Kerplunk Konnektion" and "The Lawn Darts Massacre".
Hey, where's the Big Jim movie? Co-starring Big Jack, Big Josh, Big Jeff, and Dr Steel (or does the list of characters make it come across as gay porn?).

from the 70's (possibly even earlier) where you had a balloon in a box and players took turns jabbing pointy sticks into the box trying not to pop the balloon?
'Cause that's the movie adaptation I want to see!

Though I rather prefer (having a Grandmother who grew up there and who has a German accent) these kinds of movies to be acted by real Germans (the fake accents are just a little painful for me as they are so easy to spot). Still, seems interesting!
I heard Alec Guiness, Obi Wan himself, once played him?

Yes, "Hitler: The Last Ten Days". If I have seen it, I don't recall but I gather from the title it would be similar to "Downfall".
I don't remember if the actors in "Hitler: Rise of Evil" used their own accents or adopted a German one.
I think if you are looking for a movie with Germans playing the German roles you may have to limit yourself to German cinema. That brings to mind a movie I saw recently that I can recommend to you: "The Counterfeiters". True story about a counterfeiting ring being run from a concentration camp. I think it is a German film, but it could have been Austrian. Either way, I thought it was quite an interesting story and well told.

Sometimes even the German films don't have all German casts, I've found - Bruno Ganz, who played Hitler in Der Untergang, is, if I recall, Swedish - but his portrayal is the most chillingly dead-on accurate one I have ever seen (even his former bodyguard and people who knew him personally said it was absolutely bang-on). His accent is, I think, a little odd, but then Hitler had a bit of an accent, from what I understand.

Mr. Olyphant obviously raised the material a whole hell of a lot with his utter awesomeness, but it was a solid little horror flick. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Just because it wasn't a massive success doesn't mean we should be snarky. I'm certainly not looking forward to stretch armstrong, and Sahara was an unbelievable piece of shit…but let's give credit where its due. Crazies remake was damn fine.

love the way it was filmed and constructed.
@wcolbert, no more movies about hitler. Or world war ii. Seriously, other events happened in human history.
Will Stretch Armstrong be... Brendan Fraser? (yes)
Christian Slater (doubtful)
Sean Astin?

. . . or at least about 85 % of it. I liked the build up at the beginning. Loved the aerial shot of that submerged plane. It had a lot of good moments but kinda petered out there at the end. Casting of Oliphant's deputy was sub par, too.